The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870–1930 (review) (original) (raw)

Theatre Journal, 2009

Abstract

demonstrates that marginalization—as well as the inclusionary and exclusionary, thus subjective, power of historians’ pens—can radically distort theatre history. One must applaud his efforts to repair the damage by discovering omissions and filling in the blanks. For me, the marginalization of Wilson parallels my experiences of the marginalization of rural American theatre practitioners, and one might find connections in other areas of theatre research as well. Burch’s use of abbreviations (for instance, APW for Andrew P. Wilson, SNP for Scottish National Players, and so on) and his overly thorough plot summaries become a little distracting at times; however, these are minor criticisms when compared with the author’s accomplishments in this work.

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